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  • I got some training in this. I once had a task of waking everyone up at a forest temple by ringing a giant bell with a hammer over about 3 minutes, at 4:30 AM. Around 400 people relied on that bell to keep things going. But my alarm clock died at three days into a three week session. It was a no-speech retreat so I just dealt with it.

    I didn’t miss a bell but the first couple of nights were iffy. Now I will sleep in unless something urgent is going to happen.



  • Yet you can injure people with culture. Constantly stoking emotions like fear and its siblings hatred, loathing, and obedience, eventually stimulates the amygdala into an enlarged state.

    The problem is not just ideology, it’s biology. Cults are freaky, man. There’s the psychology of inducing trances and there’s even probably some weird acausal shit that we don’t understand and would label magic.

    But our persistence as a species relies on us figuring it out.